Hannah Kenyon

Brief Life History of Hannah

When Hannah Kenyon was born on 31 August 1837, in Hague, Warren, New York, United States, her father, Kelsey Kenyon, was 34 and her mother, Lucy Balcom, was 28. She married John Harris Carpenter on 28 June 1855, in York Township, Carroll, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Thomson, Carroll, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 30 September 1903, in York Township, Carroll, Illinois, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Argo Cemetery, Argo Fay, Carroll, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Harris Carpenter
1828–1911
Hannah Kenyon
1837–1903
Marriage: 28 June 1855
Sylvester Casper Carpenter
1858–1937
Horace Carpenter
1861–1913
Carpenter
1862–1862
Kelsey Bishop Carpenter
1868–1943
Hattie Carpenter
1872–1880

Sources (9)

  • Hannah Carpenter, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Hannah Kenyon Carpenter, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Hanah Keenyon in entry for Sylvester Casper Carpenter, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"

World Events (8)

1839

Historical Boundaries: 1839: Carroll, Illinois, United States

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology. There was formerly an ancient burial mound there and Ekwall has speculated that the name is a shortened form of a British name composed of the elements crūc ‘mound’ + a personal name cognate with Welsh Einion (see Eynon ).

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinín ‘son of Coinín’, a byname based on a diminutive of cano ‘wolf’, also Anglicized as Canning and Cunneen . The similarity to the borrowed word coinín ‘coney, rabbit’ has sometimes caused this name to be Anglicized as Rabbitt .

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhinghin, ‘son of Finghen’, a personal name meaning ‘fair-born’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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John H Carpenter

I found this information at the following web site http://genealogytrails.com/ill/carroll/carroll1878diryork.html John H. CARPENTER - Carpenter and Joiner; Sec. 10; P. 0. Argo; born in Warren Co …

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